Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 66.44.300 (2026)

Treats, gifts, purchases of liquor for or from minor, or holding out minor as at least twenty-one, in public place where liquor sold

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Any person who invites a minor into a public place where liquor is sold and treats, gives or purchases liquor for such minor, or permits a minor to treat, give or purchase liquor for the adult; or holds out such minor to be twenty-one years of age or older to the owner or employee of the liquor establishment, a law enforcement officer, or a liquor enforcement officer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

[ 1994 c 201 s 7; 1941 c 78 s 1; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 7306-37A.]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1972–1983 · leading case: Baughn v. Malone, 656 P.2d 1118 (Wash. Ct. App. 1983).

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Baughn v. Malone, 656 P.2d 1118 (Wash. Ct. App. 1983). “RCW 66.44.300. (1) It shall be a misdemeanor, (a) To serve or allow to remain on the premises of any *595 tavern any person under the age of twenty-one years; (b) For any person under the age of twenty-one years to enter or remain on the premises of any tavern; Former RCW 66.”

State v. Mearns, 502 P.2d 1228 (Wash. Ct. App. 1972). · cites it 2× “030 one may commit murder without a design to affect death if he causes a death while withdrawing from the scene of a specified felony; (b) of design to cause death when an intoxicated physician commits manslaughter under RCW 9.”

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